Fragile energy security for this winter
Once again, we stand on the threshold of winter and actors and consumers are beginning to inquire about energy supply in Europe. This year, unlike the past, there seems to be no major concern; prices remain high but not historically high. However, while there are no alarm signals for this
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Each month, one of our experts publishes an article describing his view on a specific topic of the constant changes taking place in the energy market, with special focus on the French market.
Commodities prices on the up: prepare for new challenges in the European Power Market
At the time of writing, Brent Dec18 contract is trading at $85/bbl, its highest price in 4 years. Gas is following the same pattern
Soaring energy prices: thank you Donald Trump!
Since March, worldwide oil and gas prices have taken off, by about 25% for oil and nearly 50% for gas in Europe. The causes
The dark (side) strikes back?
Coal, emblem of the 19th century and an already distant industrial revolution, belongs definitively to the past. Its disappearance is being recorded everywhere, and
CO2: The return
As of last August, the financial world was already labelling CO2 as the best-performing raw material of 2018, with a nod to its price
The French PPE (multi-year energy programme) and the future of the electricity market
At this stage, we are used to watching the State intervene in the electricity market, from the side of supply as well as demand.
Germany´s energy sector under the new GroKo
On March 14th, Chancellor Angela Merkel was elected to a fourth term in office and will head a new grand coalition (Grosse Koalition –
Meanwhile, in Germany…
On 9 January, a Catholic church in Immerath, a city in western Germany, was destroyed to make way for the expansion of a gigantic
The Force Assesses
On November 7th, 2017, RTE [the French Electricity Transmission Network] published the overview of its 2017 Generation Adequacy Report.
The price of capacity: unknowns and equations
The capacity market à la française is a complicated creation: the NOME [New Organisation of the Market for Electricity] law in 2010, a decree
